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The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism. The Feb. 27 decision came four months after a three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that the CFPB’s funding mechanism violated the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause because it draws funding from the Federal Reserve instead of Congress.
Student loan companies are illegally collecting debts already discharged through bankruptcy, according to a March 17 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bulletin.
Financial institutions, mortgage servicers and some loan providers are illegally charging expenses to customers, according to a March 8 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau supervisory highlights report.
‘Buy now, pay later’ borrowers are more likely to be financially distressed than non-users, according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report.
Credit card companies are not reporting the total credit payments from millions of consumers to limit competition, according to a recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report.
Digital mortgage comparison-shopping platforms violate the law by “double dealing,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a recent advisory.